Geographies of Comfort (Hardcover)

1. Towards Geographies of Comfort Laura Price, Danny McNally and Philip Crang Part 1: Bodies and Environments 2. Transitioning Comforts: Organising Bodies for Urban Commuting Mobilities David Bissell 3. Beyond the ‘Comfort Zone’: Experiencing and Responding to Everyday Weather Eliza De Vet 4. (Re)Creating a Sense of Comfort: Post-Disaster Homemaking Stephanie Morrice 5. ‘Goodnight, Sleep Tight’: Bedtime Stories, Picture-Book Bedrooms and Tales of Comfort Jamie Adcock Part 2: Difference and Encounter 6. The Geopolitics of (Dis)Comfort and Indifference in Israel-Palestine Daniel Webb 7. Homely Comforts Abroad: Navigating the Comfort Zone(s) Within International Student Mobility Laura Prezeres 8. "Economia da Saudade": Comfort Food for London’s Brazilian Diaspora Maria das Gracas S. L. Brightwell 9. Assembling a Great Way to Fly: Performances of Comfort in the Air Weiqiang Lin Part 3: Materiality and Texture 10. Comfort, Identity and Fashion in the Post-Socialist City Mark Jayne 11. Cosy, Comforting, Disruptive? Knitting and Knitters In/Out of Place Laura Price 12. A Correspondence with Water: On the (Dis)Comforts of the Swimming Pool Miranda Ward Part 4: Health and Wellbeing 13. Picturing Dis/Comforting Geographies: Place, Punctum and Photography Andrew Gorman-Murray 14. Between Bodies and Buildings: The Place of Comfort within Therapeutic Spaces Daryl Martin 15. Feeling Good, Looking Good: Comfort and the Technologies of Beauty in the Spa Jo Little and Katherine Morton